Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home

Along with the parrots, ducks, geese, parakeets, doves, hens, the turkey, and the rabbit he introduced to us in Enslaved by Ducks, Bob Tarte and his wife Linda are owned by cats. In his disarmingly funny style, Tarte relates how the household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named Frannie—and how these unruly beasts unexpectedly became his instructors in the art of achieving contentment. Tarte shows us that life with animals gives us a way out of our narrow human perspective to glimpse something larger, more enduring, and more grounded in the simplicities of love—and catnip.